Blockchain technology has potential applications in the healthcare industry that could improve patient care and operational efficiency. Examples discussed include using blockchain to give all medical providers secure access to the latest patient treatment information, improving coordination of care for chronic patients. Blockchain could also empower patients by allowing them to store and control access to their own health data, and to be compensated for sharing anonymous data with medical researchers studying conditions. Overall, blockchain represents a new decentralized model for managing health information that could benefit all stakeholders in healthcare.
This document discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications. It begins by explaining how blockchains work and how transactions are recorded in an immutable public ledger. It then discusses the evolution of blockchain from its origins with Bitcoin (Blockchain 1.0) to include smart contracts (Blockchain 2.0) and a wider range of applications beyond finance (Blockchain 3.0). Examples of potential applications are provided across various sectors like government, healthcare, education, and supply chain management. The document concludes by summarizing some existing blockchain-based applications and prototypes.
Blockchain Developments is building a comprehensive solution for Supply chain, Politics, Decentralized currency, Financial Technology, Healthcare, Infrastructure, and other business verticals. Read our blockchain case studies and use cases of successful implementations of blockchain development solutions for our various clients.
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
There is increasing interest in the potential impact of Blockchain globally, across the business world. Blockchain is transforming data storage, security, digital property management, transactions in a variety of forms, and much, much, more. And the impact will be felt across a number of industries, including manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and more.
We believe Blockchain presents a unique opportunity for enterprises to leverage a revolutionary new technology and redefine how they function. The Blockchain Landscape Report 2019 by [X]cubeLABS discusses everything Blockchain ranging from its history, mechanism, and industry-wide adoption to its future potential.
One of the most hyped IT buzzwords to have emerged in the last couple of years. Blockchain has found its way into major media headlines on a near-daily basis, but a year and a half ago, it was a word used by a relatively small number of people to describe the peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology.
Distributed Ledgers: Possibilities and Challenges in Capital Markets Applicat...Cognizant
Distributed ledgers - blockchain technology - stands to make numerous financial services activities more secure, autonomous, and efficient. Here's a walk-through of a range of potential use cases: IPO issuance, trade agreements and settlements, confirmations, etc. and a strategy for transition.
This document discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications. It begins by explaining how blockchains work and how transactions are recorded in an immutable public ledger. It then discusses the evolution of blockchain from its origins with Bitcoin (Blockchain 1.0) to include smart contracts (Blockchain 2.0) and a wider range of applications beyond finance (Blockchain 3.0). Examples of potential applications are provided across various sectors like government, healthcare, education, and supply chain management. The document concludes by summarizing some existing blockchain-based applications and prototypes.
Blockchain Developments is building a comprehensive solution for Supply chain, Politics, Decentralized currency, Financial Technology, Healthcare, Infrastructure, and other business verticals. Read our blockchain case studies and use cases of successful implementations of blockchain development solutions for our various clients.
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
There is increasing interest in the potential impact of Blockchain globally, across the business world. Blockchain is transforming data storage, security, digital property management, transactions in a variety of forms, and much, much, more. And the impact will be felt across a number of industries, including manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retail, logistics, and more.
We believe Blockchain presents a unique opportunity for enterprises to leverage a revolutionary new technology and redefine how they function. The Blockchain Landscape Report 2019 by [X]cubeLABS discusses everything Blockchain ranging from its history, mechanism, and industry-wide adoption to its future potential.
One of the most hyped IT buzzwords to have emerged in the last couple of years. Blockchain has found its way into major media headlines on a near-daily basis, but a year and a half ago, it was a word used by a relatively small number of people to describe the peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology.
Distributed Ledgers: Possibilities and Challenges in Capital Markets Applicat...Cognizant
Distributed ledgers - blockchain technology - stands to make numerous financial services activities more secure, autonomous, and efficient. Here's a walk-through of a range of potential use cases: IPO issuance, trade agreements and settlements, confirmations, etc. and a strategy for transition.
This document discusses opportunities and challenges for blockchain technology in the insurance industry. It begins by explaining what blockchains and bitcoin are, highlighting key characteristics like security, transparency, and low transaction costs. Blockchains could reduce insurance fraud by providing permanent ledgers and could enable smart contracts to automate certain insurance processes. However, smart contracts still require an "oracle" to verify events in the physical world. The document examines how blockchains could impact different parts of the insurance value chain and considers several real-world blockchain insurance projects and examples.
Coft Token is known as one of the best Technology since the invention of the internet. It provides freedom support globally for anyone to participate in a permissionless and decentralized network.
Blockchain for Executives, Entrepreneurs and InvestorsFenbushi Capital
A brief summary of key issues that executives, entrepreneurs and investors across all industries should be aware of when considering blockchain.
First presented 8 June 2018 at the Longhash Incubator in Singapore.
Blockchain is the new buzzword. I have tried to simply it for you. I have tied to break the concept down to a simplistic level and then tried to use the understanding to imagine its application in the field of Marketing.
A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system. And, once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain contains a certain and verifiable record of every single transaction ever made. Bitcoin, the decentralized peer to peer digital currency, is the most popular example that uses blockchain technology. The digital currency bitcoin itself is highly controversial but the underlying blockchain technology has worked flawlessly and found a wide range of applications in both the financial and nonfinancial world. The main hypothesis is that the blockchain establishes a system of creating a distributed consensus in the digital online world. This allows participating entities to know for certain that a digital event happened by creating an irrefutable record in a public ledger. It opens the door for developing a democratic open and scalable digital economy from a centralized one. There are tremendous opportunities in this disruptive technology and revolution in this space has just begun. This white paper describes blockchain technology and some compelling specific applications in both the financial and nonfinancial sector. Nandan Chitale | Yogeshchandra Puranik "Blockchain and Beyond" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd42425.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comcomputer-science/other/42425/blockchain-and-beyond/nandan-chitale
Melanie Swan, an economic theorist from New York, gave a presentation on blockchain payment systems. She discussed how blockchain technology could enable new types of digital payment systems that are like email for money, Skype for money, and Apple Pay for governments. She covered various applications of blockchain for consumer payments, enterprise payments, and institutional payments. She believes blockchain payments could improve access to financial services for billions of individuals worldwide by providing solutions for remittances, credit reporting, and literacy programs.
Overview of blockchain technology and architectureEY
The adoption of blockchain technology continues to accelerate across a wide array of industries, yet many of our clients are confused about how to deploy these solutions within their environment. EY has developed a blockchain stack that fits within the existing enterprise infrastructure, project and system development life cycle approaches that are customized to the new technology, and development frameworks to streamline our deployment.
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital world by enabling distributed consensus without compromising privacy or relying on third parties. It establishes an irrefutable public record of digital events and transactions through techniques like cryptographic verification of transactions and chronological chaining of transaction "blocks". This allows various applications in financial areas like banking as well as non-financial areas like notarization, insurance, and more. The report examines some key applications and opportunities of this disruptive technology.
The document provides an overview of the state of blockchain in Q1 2016. Some key points:
- Total VC investment in bitcoin and blockchain startups rebounded in Q1 after declining in Q4 2015, though investment remains below previous highs. The average deal size and largest deals also increased.
- More VC funding is going to blockchain rather than bitcoin startups, as companies pivot away from currency applications. Over 40% of all funding now goes to blockchain and hybrid startups.
- The number of blockchain companies has grown significantly from 14 in Q1 2015 to 59 in Q1 2016. Investment is concentrating in the US, UK, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Germany.
- Metrics like
Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness ...Tim Swanson
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. It is a heavily modified version of a previous presentation covering the distributed ledger landscape. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain SocietyMelanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about what it is to be a cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal design
Blockchain's Smart Contracts: Driving the Next Wave of Innovation Across Manu...Cognizant
Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally change manufacturing supply chains by enabling trusted relationships and transactions between partners without intermediaries. Smart contracts on blockchain platforms can automate negotiations and transactions, reducing costs while increasing efficiency and agility. Early applications include smart contracts that automate procurement transactions between suppliers and buyers, and smart equipment that can automatically order replenishments. Widespread use of blockchain in manufacturing will require overcoming challenges of integrating new decentralized technologies with existing systems and evaluating technology maturity.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVcWps1VQ0
First presented at the Ethereum Palo Alto meetup on August 7, 2016: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233053122/
All citations and references can be found in the Notes section.
I would like to thank Ian Grigg for his constructive feedback on these slides.
This document provides an overview and analysis of blockchain, digital currencies, and cryptocurrencies from J.P. Morgan. It discusses how blockchain technology is moving into the mainstream for financial applications like payments and settlements. It also examines the rise of alternative non-cash payments globally and in China and Japan. Finally, it analyzes whether stablecoins could achieve global scale as a more stable alternative to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Rethinking Finance as a spot and future contingency management system for assets and liabilities. Blockchains are an improved form of contingency management (precision, automation, lower-risk). The Internet transfers information, and now value; the Internet becomes a contingency management system with programmable money, smart contracts DACs, distributed ledger transactions. Ultimately, blockchain financial networks can automatically and independently confirm and monitor transactions, without central parties like banks or governments.
Blockchain technology and applications from a financial perspectiveVittorio Zinetti
This article aims at explaining the blockchain opportunity for the financial industry. First the fundamentals of technology is introduced, then possible application of blockchain to three financial use cases are presented.
Research Paper
Dr Daniel Barreto's class: Leading Trends in IT.
Grade: 97%
Co-written by Christina Rentschler, Victor Gardrinier and Dean Rauschenbusch.
Date: 08/2017
The document discusses how blockchain technology can impact government services and law enforcement. It provides examples of projects underway in different jurisdictions like Estonia and Illinois to use blockchain for areas such as health records, academic credentials, property records, and benefit distribution. Blockchain could increase efficiency by allowing real-time transparency and tracking across agencies. It also explores how blockchain may transform the criminal justice system by providing tamper-proof record keeping of cases.
Blockchain beyond fintech by ridgelift.ioUdayan Modhe
A comprehensive paper on blockchain technology. It covers blockchain technological aspects, blockchain evolution, future trends in blockchain implementation and reference architecture.
Distributed Ledger Tech Applications - Health Report V1.5Sean Manion PhD
This document provides a summary of recent developments in applying distributed ledger technology (DLT) like blockchain to healthcare. It discusses several articles about using blockchain for medical record sharing, clinical trials, and scientific research. Upcoming events are also mentioned, including conferences on applying blockchain in healthcare and a "Blockchain Bootcamp" being held on the topic.
Blockchain system in healthcare | Vechain Introduced Data Management System a...Mariya James
VeChain has introduced Blockchain-based Healthcare Data Management System at Cyprus Hospital during the time of Covid-19. This has been a remarkable advancement in the field of the health sector.
This document discusses opportunities and challenges for blockchain technology in the insurance industry. It begins by explaining what blockchains and bitcoin are, highlighting key characteristics like security, transparency, and low transaction costs. Blockchains could reduce insurance fraud by providing permanent ledgers and could enable smart contracts to automate certain insurance processes. However, smart contracts still require an "oracle" to verify events in the physical world. The document examines how blockchains could impact different parts of the insurance value chain and considers several real-world blockchain insurance projects and examples.
Coft Token is known as one of the best Technology since the invention of the internet. It provides freedom support globally for anyone to participate in a permissionless and decentralized network.
Blockchain for Executives, Entrepreneurs and InvestorsFenbushi Capital
A brief summary of key issues that executives, entrepreneurs and investors across all industries should be aware of when considering blockchain.
First presented 8 June 2018 at the Longhash Incubator in Singapore.
Blockchain is the new buzzword. I have tried to simply it for you. I have tied to break the concept down to a simplistic level and then tried to use the understanding to imagine its application in the field of Marketing.
A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system. And, once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain contains a certain and verifiable record of every single transaction ever made. Bitcoin, the decentralized peer to peer digital currency, is the most popular example that uses blockchain technology. The digital currency bitcoin itself is highly controversial but the underlying blockchain technology has worked flawlessly and found a wide range of applications in both the financial and nonfinancial world. The main hypothesis is that the blockchain establishes a system of creating a distributed consensus in the digital online world. This allows participating entities to know for certain that a digital event happened by creating an irrefutable record in a public ledger. It opens the door for developing a democratic open and scalable digital economy from a centralized one. There are tremendous opportunities in this disruptive technology and revolution in this space has just begun. This white paper describes blockchain technology and some compelling specific applications in both the financial and nonfinancial sector. Nandan Chitale | Yogeshchandra Puranik "Blockchain and Beyond" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd42425.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comcomputer-science/other/42425/blockchain-and-beyond/nandan-chitale
Melanie Swan, an economic theorist from New York, gave a presentation on blockchain payment systems. She discussed how blockchain technology could enable new types of digital payment systems that are like email for money, Skype for money, and Apple Pay for governments. She covered various applications of blockchain for consumer payments, enterprise payments, and institutional payments. She believes blockchain payments could improve access to financial services for billions of individuals worldwide by providing solutions for remittances, credit reporting, and literacy programs.
Overview of blockchain technology and architectureEY
The adoption of blockchain technology continues to accelerate across a wide array of industries, yet many of our clients are confused about how to deploy these solutions within their environment. EY has developed a blockchain stack that fits within the existing enterprise infrastructure, project and system development life cycle approaches that are customized to the new technology, and development frameworks to streamline our deployment.
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital world by enabling distributed consensus without compromising privacy or relying on third parties. It establishes an irrefutable public record of digital events and transactions through techniques like cryptographic verification of transactions and chronological chaining of transaction "blocks". This allows various applications in financial areas like banking as well as non-financial areas like notarization, insurance, and more. The report examines some key applications and opportunities of this disruptive technology.
The document provides an overview of the state of blockchain in Q1 2016. Some key points:
- Total VC investment in bitcoin and blockchain startups rebounded in Q1 after declining in Q4 2015, though investment remains below previous highs. The average deal size and largest deals also increased.
- More VC funding is going to blockchain rather than bitcoin startups, as companies pivot away from currency applications. Over 40% of all funding now goes to blockchain and hybrid startups.
- The number of blockchain companies has grown significantly from 14 in Q1 2015 to 59 in Q1 2016. Investment is concentrating in the US, UK, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Germany.
- Metrics like
Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness ...Tim Swanson
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. It is a heavily modified version of a previous presentation covering the distributed ledger landscape. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
Cryptocitizen: Smart Contracts, Pluralistic Morality, and Blockchain SocietyMelanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about what it is to be a cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal design
Blockchain's Smart Contracts: Driving the Next Wave of Innovation Across Manu...Cognizant
Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally change manufacturing supply chains by enabling trusted relationships and transactions between partners without intermediaries. Smart contracts on blockchain platforms can automate negotiations and transactions, reducing costs while increasing efficiency and agility. Early applications include smart contracts that automate procurement transactions between suppliers and buyers, and smart equipment that can automatically order replenishments. Widespread use of blockchain in manufacturing will require overcoming challenges of integrating new decentralized technologies with existing systems and evaluating technology maturity.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVcWps1VQ0
First presented at the Ethereum Palo Alto meetup on August 7, 2016: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233053122/
All citations and references can be found in the Notes section.
I would like to thank Ian Grigg for his constructive feedback on these slides.
This document provides an overview and analysis of blockchain, digital currencies, and cryptocurrencies from J.P. Morgan. It discusses how blockchain technology is moving into the mainstream for financial applications like payments and settlements. It also examines the rise of alternative non-cash payments globally and in China and Japan. Finally, it analyzes whether stablecoins could achieve global scale as a more stable alternative to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Rethinking Finance as a spot and future contingency management system for assets and liabilities. Blockchains are an improved form of contingency management (precision, automation, lower-risk). The Internet transfers information, and now value; the Internet becomes a contingency management system with programmable money, smart contracts DACs, distributed ledger transactions. Ultimately, blockchain financial networks can automatically and independently confirm and monitor transactions, without central parties like banks or governments.
Blockchain technology and applications from a financial perspectiveVittorio Zinetti
This article aims at explaining the blockchain opportunity for the financial industry. First the fundamentals of technology is introduced, then possible application of blockchain to three financial use cases are presented.
Research Paper
Dr Daniel Barreto's class: Leading Trends in IT.
Grade: 97%
Co-written by Christina Rentschler, Victor Gardrinier and Dean Rauschenbusch.
Date: 08/2017
The document discusses how blockchain technology can impact government services and law enforcement. It provides examples of projects underway in different jurisdictions like Estonia and Illinois to use blockchain for areas such as health records, academic credentials, property records, and benefit distribution. Blockchain could increase efficiency by allowing real-time transparency and tracking across agencies. It also explores how blockchain may transform the criminal justice system by providing tamper-proof record keeping of cases.
Blockchain beyond fintech by ridgelift.ioUdayan Modhe
A comprehensive paper on blockchain technology. It covers blockchain technological aspects, blockchain evolution, future trends in blockchain implementation and reference architecture.
Distributed Ledger Tech Applications - Health Report V1.5Sean Manion PhD
This document provides a summary of recent developments in applying distributed ledger technology (DLT) like blockchain to healthcare. It discusses several articles about using blockchain for medical record sharing, clinical trials, and scientific research. Upcoming events are also mentioned, including conferences on applying blockchain in healthcare and a "Blockchain Bootcamp" being held on the topic.
Blockchain system in healthcare | Vechain Introduced Data Management System a...Mariya James
VeChain has introduced Blockchain-based Healthcare Data Management System at Cyprus Hospital during the time of Covid-19. This has been a remarkable advancement in the field of the health sector.
Learn about the healthcare IT trends that will shape 2017 and beyond. Discover how healthcare on the blockchain will move from theory to practice, how the Trump presidency will rock the healthcare boat, how demand will drive adoption of healthcare e-commerce and how telehealth will finally go mainstream.
Blockchain for Medical Records: Blockchain for your medicinal and health records can be a smart choice in any means. It can be said like -An applied cloud-based eco-system
Distributed Ledger Tech Applications - Health Report V1.2Sean Manion PhD
The document is a newsletter about distributed ledger technology applications in health. It provides summaries of recent blockchain and healthcare news stories, including Blackberry announcing healthcare applications on its Spark platform, Dubai using blockchain for licensing health staff, and a survey finding most hospitals are learning about blockchain but over half may pilot it in the next two years. Upcoming blockchain and healthcare conferences are also listed.
P14 towards using blockchain technology for e healthdevid8
This document proposes using blockchain technology to address challenges with managing electronic health data access and exchange. It summarizes previous related work applying blockchain to eHealth. The key challenges are ensuring data privacy and scalability. The proposed model uses a public blockchain to securely transmit data pointers and notifications, while storing actual health data off-chain in an InterPlanetary File System database. Smart contracts would manage access permissions. This would provide security while addressing blockchain's limitations for large data storage. The model was implemented using Ethereum, IPFS and smart contracts to test the feasibility of the blockchain-based eHealth data management approach.
Will Blockchain Revolutionize Healthcare? The Truth or A HypeJamesSmith56195
The healthcare industry is complex, with many different stakeholders involved in the patient care. These include doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and even government agencies. Blockchain technology could streamline communication between all of these parties, making it easier to exchange information critical to patient care.
Blockchain, Predictive Analytics and HealthcareRuchi Dass
Blockchain has the potential to significantly impact healthcare by facilitating the secure and decentralized sharing of patient data and other health-related transactions. It allows for a distributed digital ledger that records transactions across multiple disparate systems without needing to move data to a central location. This can improve outcomes by giving providers access to complete longitudinal patient records for clinical decision making. It can also reduce costs by streamlining processes like supply chain management, revenue cycle management, and value-based payments between providers and payers. Overall, blockchain offers opportunities to address major problems with waste, inefficiency, and lack of data access and coordination in healthcare.
A.Schumacher (2017) Blockchain & Healthcare: A Strategy GuideGalen Growth
This document discusses how blockchain technology can revolutionize the healthcare industry by improving data security, data sharing, and interoperability. It outlines several potential applications of blockchain, including increasing efficiency in clinical trials through new data and incentive models that empower patients and researchers. Blockchain could also help address issues like improving auditability of transactions, reducing healthcare fraud and the impacts of data breaches. The document argues that blockchain technologies have matured and can now enable the building of a global, secure precision medicine ecosystem.
An electronic Medical record (EHR) is a of a computerized version of a patient's paper record. Our reality
has been drastically changed by advanced innovation like – PDAs, tablets, and web-empowered gadgets
have changed our day to day lives and the manner in which we impart. Medication is a data rich enterprise.
EHR incorporate the clinical and treatment chronicles of patients, an EHR framework is worked to go past
standard clinical information gathered in a supplier's office and can be a more extensive perspective on a
patient's consideration. Electronic Health Record (EHR) frameworks face issues with respect toinformation
security, honesty and the board. We could execute blockchain innovation to change the EHR frameworks
and could be an answer of these issues. The main goal of our proposed structure is to implement and
execute blockchain innovation for EHR and furthermore to give secure capacity of electronic records by
characterizing granular access rules for the clients of the proposed framework. Thus this structure furnishes
the EHR framework with the advantages of having a versatile, secure and necessary integral chain-based
arrangement
Blockchain: A Catalyst for the Next Wave of Progress in the Life Sciences Ind...Cognizant
By applying block chain technology, pharmaceuticals companies and medical device makers can eliminate costly intermediaries and more effectively ensure security, immutability, transparency, auditability and trust across the value chain.
By applying shared ledgers, smart contracts and powerful
encryption technology, pharmaceuticals companies and medical
device makers can eliminate costly intermediaries and more
effectively ensure security, immutability, transparency, auditability and trust across the value chain.
Every business and industry demands a need to bring revolutionary changes as time and technology progresses, especially in the healthcare industry where the urgency of growth grows to higher levels. Quality healthcare services backed up with the latest technology is the need for today. In 2018, the healthcare industry spent approximately $117 million in blockchain solutions for healthcare and the value is expected to increase up to $5.6 billion by 2025. Blockchain technology consumer solutions are causing old systems to evolve which increases efficiency while decreasing cost across the healthcare industry.
Distributed Ledger Tech Applications - Health Report V1.4Sean Manion PhD
The document is a newsletter about applications of distributed ledger technology in healthcare called DLTA-H. It discusses Siemens investing $681 million in a blockchain study center in Berlin and growing career opportunities in blockchain healthcare. Upcoming events relating to blockchain in healthcare are also listed, including conferences in Nashville, Washington D.C., London, and Glasgow in November 2018.
Distributed Ledger Tech Applications - Health Report V1.3Sean Manion PhD
This document provides a summary of recent news and upcoming events related to applications of distributed ledger technology in healthcare. Key highlights include Pierre Fabre launching a blockchain patient engagement pilot, the CDC wanting to use blockchain to identify responders during crises faster, and HHS planning to launch a blockchain acquisition platform by Thanksgiving that is expected to provide an 800% return on investment. Upcoming events focus on blockchain in healthcare are also listed.
Blockchain Healthcare Projects: Revolutionizing the Future of Healthcarecyberprosocial
Blockchain healthcare projects, which leverage blockchain technology to address critical challenges and drive positive change across various facets of healthcare delivery, data management, and medical research.
This document discusses the potential applications of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. It begins with an overview of blockchain and how it can reduce costs by cutting out intermediaries. It then outlines several potential uses of blockchain in healthcare, such as supply chain management, medical records, and verifying drug ingredients. The benefits are listed as decentralization, lower costs, improved access and security. Challenges include issues around data ownership, storage capabilities and compliance with regulations. In conclusion, while blockchain is still emerging, it may help lower administrative costs and bring more transparency to the healthcare system.
Top 10 companies using blockchain for healthcare securityBlockchain Council
A block in a blockchain refers to a collection of data. A blockchain is immutable as it is impossible to change data once it is added to the blockchain. The blocks are linked to form a chain and this is what makes a blockchain so trustworthy. It is this decentralized nature of blockchain, which makes doctors, patients, and healthcare providers to gain access to the same information quickly and safely.
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This document proposes a blockchain framework for processing insurance transactions. It aims to automate and speed up insurance processes like policy issuance, claims handling, and payments. The key components are smart contracts that encode insurance processes, a distributed ledger to store transaction results, and a database to store policy and client data. Different smart contracts are created for different insurance processes, like client registration, policy management, claims, and payments. Endorsers validate transactions before execution. The framework is implemented on Hyperledger Fabric and experiments test its performance and security.
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This document proposes a blockchain-based architecture called FHIRChain to securely and scalably share clinical data in accordance with requirements from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). It presents FHIRChain, which encapsulates HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard to exchange clinical data resources in a decentralized manner without duplicating data uploads. It also demonstrates a FHIRChain-based app using digital identities to authenticate participants in a remote cancer care case study. Key lessons are discussed on further extending FHIRChain to support additional technical requirements and address remaining issues like semantic interoperability.
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2. oriented healthcare [6]. Below there are certain examples from
the healthcare industry which highlight the importance of
Blockchain and its functionality.
IV. SMART HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PATIENT
A decentralized database which is consistently held up to
date presents many advantages to the healthcare industry.
These advantages become especially interesting, when many
different parties need access to the same information [6] [7]
[8]. Medical treatment processes, for example in the area of
elderly care or chronic diseases, are predestined fields of
application where Blockchain technology can create added
value. A variety of involved parties (e.g., general practitioners,
medical specialists, hospitals, therapists, etc.) and the amount
of media disruptions involved during the treatment of a patient
(e.g., change of communication media, various medical health
records, incompatible IT interfaces, etc.) can lead to time-
consuming and resource-intensive authentication and
information processes for all medical stakeholders involved
[6].
For example, Gem, a US startup, is actively involved in this
area and, therefore, launched the Gem Health Network based
on the Ethereum Blockchain technology [7]. Through this
shared network infrastructure, different healthcare specialists
can access the same information. This will also permit the
development of a new class of Blockchain-based applications
in healthcare that will unlock wasted resources and solve
important operational problems [7].
Therefore, the Gem Health Network represents a healthcare
ecosystem that combines both businesses, individuals and
experts and which, at the same time, improve patient-centered
care while address operational efficiency issues. This network
is thus an example of a Blockchain approach that provides all
relevant medical stakeholders transparent and clear access to
the latest treatment information. On the one hand, this can
limit medical negligence due to outdated information and
thereby prevent health issues in an early stage. This can lead
to extensive savings in merit costs. On the other hand, it
allows medical experts involved to track the interactions
between the patient and all physicians which have taken place
in the past. Consequently, the entire treatment of a patient is
characterized in a transparent manner, whereby a completely
new information and confidence level between all medical
stakeholders is created.
The fact that this logic proves itself correct not only for
direct patient-physician relationships, can be demonstrated by
the example of Estonia’s digital health infrastructure. In 2011,
Estonia collaborated with Guardtime which operates a
healthcare platform based on Blockchain technology [9].
Since then, Estonian citizens, healthcare providers or health
insurance companies have been able to retrieve all information
on medical treatments performed in Estonia by using the
Guardtime Blockchain [9]. Estonia thus has proven that a
complete public health infrastructure can be operated using
Blockchain.
V. BLOCKCHAIN EMPOWERS END USERS
RESPECTIVELY PATIENTS IN HEALTHCARE
Data is the new gold – this also applies to patient-generated
health data. The abundance of available worldwide health apps
and health wearables leads to a powerful flood of data, which
can be used for medical issues related research. Blockchain
offers various application possibilities in the field of patient-
generated health data [6].
For example, healthbank, a global Swiss digital health
startup, takes a radically new approach when it comes to the
handling of data transactions and sharing of personal health
data. This startup offers its users a platform on which they can
store and manage their health information in a secure
environment [10]. The data sovereignty lies fully in the hands
of the user. As a next step, healthbank plans to consistently
apply and implement Blockchain technology for the
underlying business model [10]. Using Blockchain, in the
future, personal patient-generated health data (e.g., heart rate,
blood pressure, medicines taken, sleep patterns, eating habits
etc.) can be retrieved from health apps, wearables or physician
visits and be securely stored in the healthbank Blockchain.
Already today, healthbank users are not only able to save
their data on the platform, but can also make it available for
medical research. In return, they receive specific financial
compensation for their data provided. Healthbank thereby
becomes a unique data-trading platform, with which new
opportunities in patient-oriented research are made available
(e.g., in clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry, in
academic research projects at universities, etc.). Using
Blockchain, this model could be even further individualized in
a way that personal patient-generated health data which is
available to researchers can be tracked in the research process
with a timestamp (e.g., analogue to the described Bitcoin
transaction) [6] [8]. Healthbank users who have significantly
contributed to the success of medical research projects could
be identified using Blockchain and rewarded at a higher level
than the average.
Healthbank has thereby become a symbol of end user
respectively patient empowerment in healthcare which rides
alongside digitalization, new digital business models and
digital health initiatives. Blockchain technology will further
boost this end user and patient empowerment in healthcare.
VI. USING BLOCKCHAIN TO FIGHT COUNTERFEIT
DRUGS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Wherever products are subject to a sensitive production
process and where extensive reputational and liability issues
are associated with the final product, the benefits of
Blockchain are evident. Therefore, the research, development
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3. and production of drugs in the pharmaceutical sector is a
further field of application for Blockchain technology.
Corresponding to the previously described example referring
to Bitcoin transactions via Blockchain, this technology can
also be used to monitor the production processes for drugs.
In this context, the issue of counterfeit medicine is an
urgent and increasingly acute worldwide issue. According to
the World Health Organization, ten percent of drugs are
counterfeit worldwide, in developing countries the number
rises up to 30 percent [11]. Such counterfeit drugs often do not
only affect so-called lifestyle products (e.g., muscle building
supplements, potency stimulants, slimming products, etc.), but
also drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders and
cancer, antibiotics, painkillers, contraceptives and other
prescription drugs [11]. Such counterfeits can contain the
correct active ingredient, but in most cases show a dose which
is too high or too low or which are produced in an impure
manner. It then becomes extremely dangerous for the human
organism when there is no trace of the expected active
substance in the forged drug [11].
Hyperledger, a research network across industries, recently
launched the Counterfeit Medicines Project [12]. The project
especially focuses on the issue of drug counterfeiting and is
one of the current use cases within the research network, in
which Accenture, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Block Stream and
Bloomberg are involved [12]. As part of this project, each
drug produced is marked with a timestamp. Firstly, thanks to
this approach, it is possible to determine when and where the
drug was produced at any given time. Secondly, such an
approach can be specifically used to fight the production of
counterfeit drugs. Using Blockchain, the origin of the product
and its components are detected, and any transfer of
ownership in each case is made clear and available to
everyone. Forged, poor quality or stolen goods can be tracked
and identified.
In this field of application, Blockchain contributes to
ensuring that safety in relation to drugs is increased, and
health-related follow-up costs are reduced.
VII. CONCLUSION
The examples described, show that Blockchain offers
numerous opportunities for usage in the healthcare sector, e.g.
in public health management, user-oriented medical research
based on personal patient data as well as drug counterfeiting.
The immense potential of this technology shows up
wherever, until now, a trusted third party was necessary for
the settlement of market services. With Blockchain, direct
transactions suddenly become possible, whereby a central
actor, who controlled the data, earned commission or even
intervened in a censoring fashion, can be eliminated.
This disruptive character, which underlies Blockchain
technology, will strongly affect the balance of power between
existing market players in healthcare. It will also promote new
digital business models and digital health initiatives. Due to the
fact that, in the future, (data) intermediaries can be avoided,
this technology opens new doors with respect to how market
interactions in healthcare can be conducted. Blockchain thus
has an immense potential for the future and will show
disruptive changes in the healthcare industry.
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